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Finding Hope and Resilience with Mindfulness

Hope and resilience may go hand in hand. When we cultivate hope, we are also cultivating resilience. Hope is the desire or expectation for a certain outcome. Holding hope nurtures a positive mindset and positive emotional states. Positive emotional states support our resilience.  Cultivating hope and resilience doesn’t mean that we deny or turn away […]

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Creating a Compassionate Heart of Resilience

Creating a compassionate heart of resilience can help to sustain us during difficult times. In times of uncertainty or difficulty, we often experience emotional pain. If we lack emotional coping skills, we may become entangled in and overwhelmed by these emotions, which may lead to increased anxiety, stress, anger, and other difficult emotions.  Mindfulness and […]

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How to Be Resilient

We can be resilient in difficult times by starting with developing a resilient mindset. In difficult times, there is pain. What we do in reaction to the pain determines whether we will cope well and ride the wave of pain or become entangled in wanting things to be different and thus, create suffering for ourselves. […]

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Mindfulness and Resilience for Wellbeing

Mindfulness and Resilience are correlated, as some studies have shown. If you have a regular mindfulness practice or meditation practice, you have likely experienced the positive benefits of meditation. Mindfulness practices can help us to reduce stress, anxiety, and depression and increase a sense of peace, happiness, wellbeing, and resilience. Practicing mindfulness helps us to […]

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Resilience Quotes – Maya Angelou

These resilience quotes by Maya Angelou offer a sense of hope. They serve as reminders to always connect with our authentic self, share our unique inner strengths with the world, and cultivate our own resilience in difficult times. Inspiring words about resilience offer a path to others who are seeking to become more resilient in […]

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Radical Compassion for Emotional Resilience

Radical compassion is a special compassion practice. Compassion is the practice of seeing, at a foundational level, the goodness of all beings and recognizing that all beings long to feel happy and at peace. Special compassion practice involves cultivating the capacity to feel in one’s heart a desire to release all beings from suffering and […]

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How to Create Emotional Resilience for Difficult Times

Emotional resilience is our ability to bounce back quickly and with relative ease during difficult times and meet future stressors with greater ease. When we experience stressful times, such as the pandemic, loss, illness, or climate related disasters, we may experience fatigue, anxiety, sadness, or overwhelm. Even in the midst of stressful times, there are things […]

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Resiliency Definition

Resiliency definition: Resiliency is the ability to be adaptable in the face of stress, to bounce back more easily and quickly following difficult events, and to be more adaptable to future stress.  There are a number of factors that may contribute to a decreased sense of resiliency, or ability to remain calm and steady during […]

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Inspirational Quotes About Resilience

May these inspirational quotes about resilience inspire you! Inspirational quotes about resilience can offer support and encouragement on your path toward being resilient. “My barn having burned down, I can now see the moon.”  –Mizuta Masahide “Rock bottom became the solid foundation in which I rebuilt my life.” – J.K. Rowling “Life doesn’t get easier or […]

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Mindfulness for Resilience During the Pandemic

Developing resilience during the pandemic can support us all with emotional coping. My heart goes out to everyone during this uncertain time. I am sending lovingkindness and wishes for wellbeing to all who are suffering.  It’s normal to not feel normal during this crisis. We’re all having a bit of difficult time paying attention, concentrating, […]